Compliance & regulatory considerations
Telecom regulation is jurisdiction specific and the cost of getting it wrong is operator level filtering, regulatory letters, and revoked numbering. We design around the frameworks that actually drive the architecture.
TRAI TCCCPR 2018
DLT (Jio, Airtel, Vi, BSNL)
DND scrubbing
STIR/SHAKEN (US)
FCC Robocall Mitigation
GDPR & UK GDPR
PCI DSS for billing
Ofcom number porting (UK)
TRA UAE awareness
India is the most prescriptive market we work in. The TRAI Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations sit on top of the DLT registration regime that every operator implements differently. Our SMS and voice broadcast pipelines scrub against the latest DND register on every send, validate that the PE entity ID, header, and content template ID match what is registered on Jio, Airtel, Vodafone Idea, BSNL, and TataTele, and produce the audit trail TRAI demands during a complaint investigation. For contact centre operators we are familiar with the IP-1 / OSP licensing distinctions and the implications for international transit.
The US robocall regime is now the second most active. We integrate STIR/SHAKEN attestation into FreeSWITCH and Kamailio call legs, sign Identity headers with your STI-CA certificate, verify inbound attestations, and submit the Robocall Mitigation Database certifications the FCC and downstream carriers expect. Originating service providers that are not full carriers can route via an upstream attesting partner; we help you decide which model is cheaper for the call profile you actually run.
Billing that ever sees a card number sits inside PCI DSS. We push tokenisation into Stripe, Adyen, or Razorpay hosted fields so your application servers stay in SAQ A territory rather than SAQ D, and we add PCI pause/resume to call recording so DTMF card capture never persists to disk. GDPR and UK GDPR drive how we handle CDR retention, recorded call retention, and lawful basis for marketing dialling.